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Sat Jan 15, 2011 9:23 pm

Asterax

Joined: 21 Nov 2002
Posts: 1883
Location: Maine

huh?

Sat Jan 15, 2011 9:28 pm

jehu

Joined: 25 Aug 2002
Posts: 9310

i have no idea why, but i love the name penny.

Sat Jan 15, 2011 9:49 pm

futuristxen

Joined: 01 Jul 2002
Posts: 19377
Location: Tighten Your Bible Belt

What are people's thoughts on this sort of thing? I've run into it often on the internet, and my feeling has always been that it's inconsequential. You are ostensibly who my experience makes you, and the experiences that I have with a character are as real as they are with someone who is "real". Everyone on the internet is real, even when they aren't. Maybe especially when they aren't.

Point being that I don't think the writer past a certain point can "retire" a character. What about people who don't see this post, or who died before you got to post it? Or what if people just disregard it? At this point the character as an experience is out of your hands.

There's an egoism to the reveal though that is interesting. The idea that you the author are in control of the audience to the degree that you can pick the story's end in this sort of setting is a special level of arrogance. There's an inate notion of "oh I fooled you", but the person who has been fooled is you because this entire time you thought you were more real than your creation, when in the eyes of the audience there is still no difference.

What's the difference between a Crazy Amy or a Penny Anne Meyer? Just different characters. Neither more real to anyone here than another, y'know.

I'd be interested to know why you bothered with "retiring"?

Sat Jan 15, 2011 10:01 pm

AdamBomb

Joined: 05 Mar 2004
Posts: 3183
Location: Louisiana

Its cool. Like I've said in the past...the majority of us are all aliases from the mind of one sick person with a lot of time on his hands. He just communicates back and forth with all the aliases he has created. But you should already know this.

Sat Jan 15, 2011 10:07 pm

Mikal kHill

Joined: 29 Jun 2002
Posts: 6852
Location: http://mikalkhill.com

I never thought Crazy Amy was real, and the chats we've had in text in IM form cemented that. Cool beans, though. Seemed like the character was fading out a bit over the past few months anyways.

Sat Jan 15, 2011 10:07 pm

futuristxen

Joined: 01 Jul 2002
Posts: 19377
Location: Tighten Your Bible Belt

I thought Prolific Memorie was ghostwriting for a little bit there.

Sat Jan 15, 2011 10:18 pm

JohnSchwan

Joined: 05 Dec 2005
Posts: 667
Location: Baton Rouge, LA/MA

Yo Penny I'm really happy for you and I'ma let you finish but Raoul Degrout had one of the greatest aliases of all time.

Sat Jan 15, 2011 10:36 pm

tommi teardrop

Joined: 12 Apr 2007
Posts: 2222
Location: Las Vegas

So it goes.

tommi teardrop shall proceed and continue.

Sat Jan 15, 2011 11:10 pm

Disharmony

Joined: 01 Jun 2003
Posts: 3037
Location: Buried in Minnesota dirt.

Figured this out a lonnnnng time ago. Purposely skipped over any of your posts. Internet characters are boring.

Sun Jan 16, 2011 1:12 am

tommi teardrop

Joined: 12 Apr 2007
Posts: 2222
Location: Las Vegas

Wait, does this mean that the guy didn't really shit his pants? Did you really even kill that person? Or was that mem?

Transfer your character to mem, please.

Sun Jan 16, 2011 1:46 am

NeuroA champion of Kurtis SP

Joined: 19 Jul 2002
Posts: 7909

who the

what the

whats going on here

Sun Jan 16, 2011 1:51 am

TurnpikeGates

Joined: 30 Jun 2003
Posts: 517
Location: Bay Area

futuristxen wrote: What are people's thoughts on this sort of thing? I've run into it often on the internet, and my feeling has always been that it's inconsequential. You are ostensibly who my experience makes you, and the experiences that I have with a character are as real as they are with someone who is "real". Everyone on the internet is real, even when they aren't. Maybe especially when they aren't.

Point being that I don't think the writer past a certain point can "retire" a character. What about people who don't see this post, or who died before you got to post it? Or what if people just disregard it? At this point the character as an experience is out of your hands.

There's an egoism to the reveal though that is interesting. The idea that you the author are in control of the audience to the degree that you can pick the story's end in this sort of setting is a special level of arrogance. There's an inate notion of "oh I fooled you", but the person who has been fooled is you because this entire time you thought you were more real than your creation, when in the eyes of the audience there is still no difference.

What's the difference between a Crazy Amy or a Penny Anne Meyer? Just different characters. Neither more real to anyone here than another, y'know.

I'd be interested to know why you bothered with "retiring"?

+1

Delete everything after this post then exit through the gift shop (and lock it).

Sun Jan 16, 2011 1:52 am

neveragainlikesheep

Joined: 22 May 2008
Posts: 2536
Location: TKO from Tokyo

Meh.

Never was a fan. Never had much of a reaction either.

Good for you, I guess.

Sun Jan 16, 2011 1:58 am

Flossin

Joined: 28 Jul 2009
Posts: 611

Disharmony wrote: Internet characters are boring.

Yeah, I think this sort of thing is pretty lame. I know I'm not a longtime forum poster like a lot of you guys, but I didn't have much of a reaction either and the 'big reveal' fell flat for me. There are instances of internet characters being entertaining (at least from time to time) etc, but I think it's generally boring and not worth it (not worth it for you, CRAZY, since you say it was hard work and I personally don't exactly think you won any internets with this). Interacting with 'internet characters' isn't really fun.